Forum has been archived on the WayBack Machine!

FuBar · January 11, 2025, 12:33:57 AM

Hi all, the Bradley Smoker Forum has been preserved and you can find it on the Internet Archive's WayBack machine! The forum's homepage can be accessed directly here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250103071237/https://forum.bradleysmoker.com/index.php

As the site is quite big it takes a few moments to load up and switch pages. There may be some deep parts of a section that havent been migrated to the WayBack Machine yet, but eventually it will all be there.

Alternatively, the preserved forum can be downloaded from Google Drive. The compressed file is 1.56GB and uncompressed is 7GB. Once uncompressed there's a folder called forum.bradleysmoker.com and a file called Load From Here. If you're using a Mac, clicking on the Load From Here shortcut will take you to the offline homepage of the complete forum as it were at the beginning of January.

If you're using Windows, go into the forum.bradleysmoker folder and scroll to the 50th file which is named index.php.html Clicking on this index file will take you to the offline homepage. The file outside the folder called Load From Here is just a shortcut to this index file. Make a shortcut to the file and place it outside the folder for easy access.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/102e6pzrPrUd4T-qHOAUMdibFASbzhtFx/view?usp=sharing

When you follow the Google Drive link you'll get a message saying there's an error and the file can't be previewed, this is because it's compressed. Feel free to download the file and have the forum available for offline viewing.

A BIG thank you to everyone over the years who contributed and made the forum an awesome learning resource! Cheers and happy smoking!

KyNola · January 11, 2025, 06:20:40 AM

Thanks FuBar!

watchdog56 · January 13, 2025, 07:28:37 AM

Thank you

manxman · January 13, 2025, 08:07:23 AM

Thanks... good job FuBar.

I know that Brian at Bradley was looking at ways and means to archive the forum and did say he would ensure this was done before the forum was taken down, there has been no update from him for a good while but he was waiting to hear from others within the Bradley organisation.

Much too valuable an asset to lose.

ExpatCanadian · January 14, 2025, 12:43:15 PM

Wow, what a great effort. Thanks so much!

ExpatCanadian · January 14, 2025, 02:11:30 PM

I unpacked, but had a few errors relating to that "__MACOSX" folder, and the "Load from here" file in the root of the unpacked files is not recognized on my Windows machine. Anyone else had success on a Windows 10 PC?

willymike · January 14, 2025, 02:21:31 PM

Quote from: ExpatCanadian on January 14, 2025, 02:11:30 PMI unpacked, but had a few errors relating to that "__MACOSX" folder, and the "Load from here" file in the root of the unpacked files is not recognized on my Windows machine. Anyone else had success on a Windows 10 PC?

I had the same errors (Windows 11), ignored them and opened the index.php.html mentioned in the original post. Seems to work fine for me so far

ExpatCanadian · January 14, 2025, 05:33:42 PM

Thanks, I got it working. I wonder if there's a way to get the search working.

watchdog56 · **Today** at 06:14:59 AM

I hope Bradley doesn't take this down for a while, at least into March. I am not home and would like to make sure I do this on my home computer.